Making your own chips (crisps) is 1,963,467.4 times less expensive than buying them pre-made.

I like to use popcorn to determine when my oil is hot enough. Space 4 kernels out around your pan since most electric stove eyes/pans do not create even heating. When they pop the oil's just right. Plus, there's popcorn.

Great Instructable and design! But don't you usually have to pay some rent or other fee to sit even so independent a house on an individual's/business's/institution's property? How might that figure into your budget?

Do they have canned dough (biscuits in the US) in the UK?I bet your handmade dough tastes better but rolling these into "snakes" and wind them around a green stick with the bark removed is much quicker and easier. Roast over embers and enjoy. Well, enjoy as much as you can enjoy pre-made dough.